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The Jazz Loft Project (University of Chicago Press) Typewriters showcasing how the AACM bridgedIn 1957, Eugene Smith walked away from his longtime job at Life and the home he shared with his wife and four children to move into a dilapidated, five story loft building at 821 Sixth Avenue in New York Citys wholesale flower district. The loft was the late night haunt of musicians, including some of the biggest names in jazzCharles Mingus, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, and Thelonious Monk among them. Here, from 1957 to 1965, he made nearly 40,000